Arica is a desert city on the northern coast of Chile. It’s just a few miles from Peru, a few hours to Bolivia, and sunny almost every day. I’ve been here for a few weeks and it’s really growing on me. Lots of fun people and everything is relaxed.
El Morro, a big hill. It takes about 15 minutes to walk to the top. Good views
The Coastline
Laucho Beach
Average street in Arica, Chile
Posted on May 9th, 2007 by Administrator
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Montevideo is a cool, under-rated city in Uruguay. I stayed there for about 5 weeks. It has decent beaches and a European feel.
Pocitos is a nice area of Montevideo with beaches and restaurants.
Uruguayan students at a bar near the main university. They sell 1 liter bottles of beer.
A standard parrillada. They eat lots of meat and cook it on wooden coals. Basically every restaurant is either Italian food or this.
People waiting at a bus stop
Gay bartenders at a nongay bar called “Living” near the La Herradura Spanish school.
The standard “Murderer Bush Get Out” sign.
The main street of Montevideo, called 18 de Julio
Plaza Independencia, an area close to many of the bars in Montevideo
A park in Centro. The grass is almost too green
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Here’s a few pictures from the planes I took from Montevideo to Arica, Chile
Posted on April 28th, 2007 by Administrator
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My favorite game, the “guess which cup has the ball game!” They were talking in Spanish, so I couldn’t quite tell what their scam was. My guess is that they were playing the game straight, but paying out with fake money because I could always guess the right cup. They sure did draw in a crowd.
This guy was a bit more charismatic and thus, had a bigger crowd. He seemed to be paying people in the audience. Not sure if they were his friends or not.
The standard “Fuera Bush” (get out Bush) sign. For some reason Uruguayans think we want to steal their water. Additionally, they often have a Russian flag in their Fuera Bush signs; which is strange because they have a much better quality of life than Russia. This sign hangs over the entrance to the biggest university in Montevideo.
Posted on April 15th, 2007 by Administrator
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I took a trip to the center of Uruguay for the annual “Semana Cerveca.” Well, the name was a bit of a tease because it resembled a county fair more than the raging spring break party that I was expecting. I did meet lots of cool people. For some reason, tons of teenagers wanted to talk to me.
Some people I met while walking along the Uruguay River. It borders Argentina, and generally the Uruguayans don’t like Argentina.
Some random chick at a bar.
Me standing in a neighborhood in Paysandu. All the hotels were booked so we stayed in a room in somebody’s house.
Bartender in a club in Paysandu, Uruguay
Posted on April 8th, 2007 by Administrator
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Punta del Este in a famed beach resort. Rich Argentinians go there and it almost felt like California or Florida in Uruguay. There was bad weather so I didn’t see the thongs that I was hoping to, but still had fun. After that we hopped a bus to Punta del Diablo, a small fishing village close to Brazil. This place was awesome. It had old houses lining the ocean with a few small beach bars, surfers, and fishermen.
Here I am waiting for the bus. We got on the wrong bus, but I think it was a setup. A bus showed up at the exact time we were meant to leave and it had the exact bus number that our ticket had. No other buses were in sight. When the conductor checked our ticket we were already a half hour out of town. They did help us go back the other way, and we eventually made it on our original bus about 2 hours and 100 km later.
Punta del Diablo has a mix of rocky and sand coastline.
Charming houses line the coast. Basically everything was available to rent.
One of the bigger beaches in Punta del Este. Bad weather = no people.
Clubs lining the street in Punta del Este. People stay out all night here. For some reason, 2 or 3 am is still considered early.
Posted on April 1st, 2007 by Administrator
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I’m learning Spanish in Montevideo, Uruguay. It’s amazing in about a week I can speak better than I could after taking a semester of Spanish in college, and at just a fraction of the cost. It made me think that colleges really need to get off their high horse and realize that stuffing 20some people in a class and giving tests isn’t the way to learn a language. I would really recommend the “La Herradura” school in Montevideo if anybody wants to learn Spanish in South America.
Leticia, one of the teachers.
Juan
Paula, the secretary
The building, near Parque Rodo. I live upstairs.
Posted on March 27th, 2007 by Administrator
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These guys come in with their horses to collect recycling. Very interesting. It’s fine, except the “mierda” from the horses seems to find its way into the streets.
Posted on March 23rd, 2007 by Administrator
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it was sweet, fun, precise, and totally awesome. I traveled through Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile with some friends. One of the guys was about 6′7 so everybody was staring at
us. I’d like to travel through other parts of South America but I don’t want to get vaccines or take malaria drugs. I also don’t want to get stabbed or get an Oregon Trail disease.
This is Vina del Mar, a really nice coastal city a few hours west of Santiago, Chile
Some of the beat up houses in Valparaiso.
A view of the Andes flying from Santiago to Buenos Aires. I found the airline, Gol, on AirNinja.com
Posted on March 20th, 2007 by Administrator
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I took a glider flight over Miami, the keys and the Everglades. A glider has no engine and just two people. It floats in the air and is flown up in a tow plane. We started at 3000 ft, caught a thermal up to 5000, did a few flips, took a tour of the area, and then landed.
Posted on February 19th, 2007 by Administrator
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